After the Ming army entered the grasslands, the chariots quickly headed towards the Northern Yuan royal camp.
Along the way, they galloped across the grasslands, faster than horses. Each chariot could carry more than ten people, and hundreds of chariots could carry thousands of people.
The other soldiers were mostly on horseback.
The chariots were the vanguard this time, and they quickly approached the Northern Yuan's royal tent. The Khan of the Northern Yuan also sent troops to begin fighting with the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Although the Northern Yuan had a considerable number of soldiers, numbering over 100,000 to 200,000, they were still largely ineffective against the power of a few hundred chariots.
Since it was on the grassland, once the two armies clashed, there was nowhere to hide.
Even their escape was clearly visible, so such a place with a wide field of vision and flat terrain provided an excellent environment for the chariot to exert its power.
Whether it's the light cannons or muskets on the tanks, they can easily aim at the enemy and then attack at will.
It's basically a 100% hit rate.
In such a situation, a single tank can easily eliminate dozens or hundreds of enemies in a short period of time.
The key enemy was almost unable to damage the chariot; neither their longswords nor their arrows could harm it.
The tanks were also covered with hard steel, with only the cannon barrels and gun muzzles exposed.
Therefore, the enemy's arrows could not harm the people inside.
In such a situation, these chariots were virtually invincible on the grasslands, with nowhere they couldn't go and no enemy they couldn't kill.
Soon, the Northern Yuan soldiers suffered countless casualties; a few hundred chariots alone easily reaped the lives of tens of thousands of enemies.
The key is that this tank is extremely fast, so other soldiers have almost no chance to escape.
They could only futilely expose their backs to the Ming army, so in this situation, it would be better to swim over and fight head-on.
However, a direct confrontation did not seem to yield any good results. As one bad piece of news after another reached the Northern Yuan's royal tent, the Khan's face grew increasingly grim.
The so-called vanguard of tanks alone was enough to crush the Northern Yuan soldiers.
However, the main force of the Ming Dynasty had not even arrived at the battlefield yet. This situation was unacceptable to the Khan of the Northern Yuan, but what could he do even if he found it unacceptable?
So the only option was to flee. The grasslands were vast, and the Khan believed that no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty was, he could be safe as long as he kept running until he reached a place where no one could find him, a place where the Ming army couldn't reach him.
Therefore, the Khan led the remaining nearly 100,000 troops in a swift retreat, leaving tens of thousands of soldiers to cover the rear and hold off the Ming soldiers.
The Khan of the Northern Yuan originally thought that the soldiers he left behind would be enough to hold off the Ming soldiers, giving him enough time to catch his breath and escape. However, he was too naive.
The Ming soldiers easily wiped out the tens of thousands of soldiers he left behind to cover the retreat.
This time, they would not let him escape as easily as before, so they quickly gave chase.
The key point is that although the Northern Yuan Khan and his men were not slow in their escape on horseback, the Ming Dynasty's chariots were much faster.
When a large number of horses run across the grassland, they leave tracks on the grass. The more horses there are, the more obvious the tracks become.
So the Ming chariots followed the tracks left by the horses as they fled, and sped off in pursuit.
These chariots were originally powered by coal-fired steam engines, which were very powerful and had a very high horsepower.
Therefore, you can drive very fast on the grassland, and the grassland is flat and the roads are very good.
All they needed to do was run the chariots at maximum power and follow the route. In this way, the chariots became faster and faster, quickly closing the distance with the main force of the fleeing Northern Yuan Khan.
After chasing for almost a day, they spotted a large number of fleeing Northern Yuan troops and the Northern Yuan royal family at a certain location on the grassland.
Then the brutal massacre began. Although it was cruel, these Northern Yuan people were by no means innocent.
Because their previous acts of burning, killing, and looting against the people on the borders of the Ming Dynasty were even more excessive.
If we are not ruthless towards them now and do not completely eliminate them, they will still go to the northern border in the future and continue to burn, kill, and plunder the people there.
Such matters must be dealt with forcefully from the outset, leaving them no chance to continue growing and threatening the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The ensuing battle was almost entirely predictable.
To these Northern Yuan soldiers, the Ming chariots were like a giant demon; their hard shells were impossible for them to break through with their swords.
The charge of the horses had almost no effect, and the muskets and cannons on the chariots were even more terrifying.
The soldiers were almost completely overwhelmed and unable to fight back. The massacre lasted for a full day and night, and finally, at dawn the next morning, it all came to an end.
The Northern Yuan soldiers were almost wiped out, and the Northern Yuan royal family also suffered heavy casualties.
Most of them even became prisoners of war.
The Ming Dynasty achieved a great victory in this campaign to suppress the Northern Yuan.
When the news reached Nanjing, neither Zhu Yuanzhang nor Zhu Yunwen were surprised.
The threat from the north has been completely resolved, and the grasslands have become the territory of the Ming Dynasty. There is no longer any need to worry about the nomadic tribes in the north causing any damage or threat to the Ming Dynasty.
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